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A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia

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  • Gen Suwa

    (The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan)

  • Reiko T. Kono

    (National Museum of Nature and Science, Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan)

  • Shigehiro Katoh

    (Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1546, Japan)

  • Berhane Asfaw

    (Rift Valley Research Service, P.O. Box 5717, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

  • Yonas Beyene

    (Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and TourismP.O. Box 13247, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Abstract

Gorillas leave the line Timing the divergence between the gorilla, chimp and human lineages has been the province of molecular phylogeny largely unconstrained by fossil evidence. Gen Suwa et al. now present fossil teeth from Ethiopia which look very similar to those of a modern gorilla, even though they are 10 million years old. If the teeth, assigned to a new species of fossil ape, are from a creature on the gorilla lineage, then the divergence between gorillas and the chimp–human stock must have happened before that time, constraining divergence dates reached through the comparison of contemporary genetic sequences.

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  • Gen Suwa & Reiko T. Kono & Shigehiro Katoh & Berhane Asfaw & Yonas Beyene, 2007. "A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia," Nature, Nature, vol. 448(7156), pages 921-924, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:448:y:2007:i:7156:d:10.1038_nature06113
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06113
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    1. Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Mateo & Sarraf, Matthew A. & Woodley of Menie, Michael A. & Miller, Geoffrey F., 2023. "The ten-million-year explosion: Paleocognitive reconstructions of domain-general cognitive ability (G) in extinct primates," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).

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